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Re: Why Blockstream is against "contentious" hard forks - Control
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gmaxwell
on 06/06/2016, 17:10:48 UTC
Correct. While I might have wrongly used 'average' instead of median somewhere (I don't recall all of the times that I've written about this), Maxwell never did.

but gmaxwel has

median transaction size of 226byte??
i think u meant minimum not median
That is the median size.

again the 226byte is MINIMUM.. not median, not average.. the median is about 500.. the average is similar
median means middle number. and is usually close to an average, well atleast in the same ball park.. its definetly not the minimum or the maximum.. but the amount between the two..

No. 226 is actually the _median_ transaction size.


In [46]: pp = AuthServiceProxy("http://bitcoinrpc:password@127.0.0.1:8332")                                   
In [47]: txa=[pp.getrawtransaction(x,1) for x in pp.getblock(pp.getblockhash(415093),True)['tx'][1:]]
In [48]: sum([x['size'] for x in txa])
Out[48]: 999724
In [49]: numpy.median([x['size'] for x in txa])
Out[49]: 226.0


Same story for pretty much every block.

(Minimum is 189 in that block FWIW).

Franky1, in this case you were just confused-- but you've got a number of other claims like saying CT is part of core's published roadmap, that are outright lies. I think you need to stop wasting everyone's time.